Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales
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I love to write. I have a deep love for words and language; a budding philologist (a late bloomer according to my father). I have been fascinated with the construction of sentences and how meaning is derived from the order of words.
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The Better Note
The choice is so small that strangers on the platform don’t notice. A train exhales. A gull writes a white vowel across the morning. The announcement board swaps times like a conjurer’s deck. Lena stands under its blinking numerals and decides.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 months ago in Fiction
The Hollow Door
Prologue: The Knock The first knock was so soft Mara thought she had imagined it, a trick of the storm or the restless old bones of the house. She set her book aside, fingers pressed flat on the cover a moment longer than necessary, as though the weight of her hand could anchor her.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 months ago in Fiction
The Knock at Hollow Lane. Top Story - September 2025.
The first knock was so soft Mara thought she had dreamed it. The cottage was always quiet in the evenings, but that night the silence was heavier, as if the walls themselves were listening. The fire guttered down to a bed of embers, pulsing faint orange. The mantle clock ticked with a thin, nervous rhythm. Wind shouldered the house, carrying rain across the moor, brushing the windowpanes with long, wet fingers.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 months ago in Fiction
The Silence and the Song
Prelude “Before crowns were forged, there was silence and song – and the choice between them.” In the age when crowns were heavier than mountains, and thrones cast shadows longer than rivers, a hunger stirred that no kingdom could name. It was older than stone, older than fire, older even than the first song of the stars. Yet the stars endured, distant but steadfast, keeping their silent watch. Their light bore witness, silent but unwavering, as the Shadow spread its hunger across the earth.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales4 months ago in Fiction
